The Second World War in Europe Second Edition

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ISBN: 9781405846998 | 1405846992
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Copyright: 5/29/2009

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Provides a succinct and focussed account of the Second World War in Europe. One of the top 30 titles in the Seminar Studies Series. Succinct and readable treatment of a huge and often complex topic Larger format allows for new research and historical debate Invaluable primary source material

Preface	p. xi
Publisher's Acknowledgements	p. xii
Chronology	p. xiii
Who's Who	p. xvii
Glossary	p. xxiii
Maps	p. xxx
Background	p. 1
The Road to War	p. 3
The Origins of the War	p. 3
Preparing for War	p. 8
The Second World War	p. 13
The Flow of Blitzkrieg, 1939-42	p. 15
Campaigns East and West, 1939-40	p. 15
Strategies for Survival and Expansion, 1940-41	p. 22
The Limits of Blitzkrieg, 1941-42	p. 25
Peoples at War	p. 28
Economies and Societies at War	p. 28
Barbarism and the Holocaust	p. 35
Collaboration and Resistance	p. 41
Conducting War	p. 45
Technology and Intelligence	p. 45
Alliances and Strategy	p. 51
Strategic Bombing and the U-Boat War	p. 57
The EBB of Blitzkrieg, 1942-45	p. 64
The Changing Balance of Fortune, 1942-43	p. 64
Success and Failure South and East, 1943-44	p. 68
Closing the Ring, 1944-45	p. 71
Assessment	p. 79
The End of the War and After	p. 81
Costs and the Division of Europe	p. 81
Historical Debates	p. 85
Winning and Losing	p. 90
Documents	p. 95
Britain goes to war	p. 96
The mood in Berlin	p. 97
Blitzkrieg 1940	p. 97
Churchill's finest hour	p. 98
De Gaulle and resistance	p. 99
Stalin and Barbarossa	p. 99
Italo-German relations	p. 100
Boffins at war	p. 100
Stalingrad diary	p. 101
The Red Army	p. 102
Himmler on race	p. 102
Goebbels and terror propaganda	p. 103
Unconditional surrender	p. 103
Workers' attitudes in wartime Britain	p. 104
Allied production operations compared	p. 105
Speer on Allied bombing	p. 105
Under the bombs	p. 106
Death of a B-17	p. 106
U-boat under attack	p. 107
On being shelled	p. 108
Goebbels on the turning of the tide	p. 108
Ambush in Sicily	p. 108
Summary justice on the Eastern front	p. 109
Allied vs German tanks	p. 111
Airpower over Normandy	p. 111
Hitler in command	p. 112
The surrender of Berlin	p. 112
The commandant of Auschwitz interviewed	p. 113
Guide to Further Reading	p. 115
References	p. 131
Index	p. 133
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